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Chlorophyll

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A green pigment found in the chloroplasts of plants, algae, and some bacteria

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Photosynthesis

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The process in which a plant uses carbon dioxide gas and water to make food and oxygen

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Tissues

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Are larges groups of simpler cells that preform a specific function in an organism

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Chloroplasts

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Are structures in which food is made.

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Vacuole

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A large storage sac that can expand and shrink.

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Cuticle an adaptation that plants use

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a waxy, water proof layer

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Vascular tissue

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Is a system of tú like structures inside a plant through which water, minerals, and food move.

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Nonvascular plant

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Plants that lack vascular tissue for transporting materials

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Rhizoids

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Thin root-like. Structures

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Vascular plant

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Plants with vascular tissue

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Phloem

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The vascular tissue through which food moves

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Xylem

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A vascular tissue through which minerals and water move

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Fronds

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Fern like leaves

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Pollen

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Tiny structures that contain the cells that will later become sperm cells.

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Seed

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A structure that contains a young plant inside a develop

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Gymnosperm

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A seed plant that produces naked seeds

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Angiosperm

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Flowering plants

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Cotyledon

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Seed leaf

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Monocots

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Angiosperm’s that have only one seed leaf

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Diocots

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Produce seeds with two seed leaves

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Root cap

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Protects the root from injury as the root grows through the soil

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Cambium

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Ga layer of cells

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Stomata

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small openings, or pores in a leaf

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Transpiration

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Tthe process by which water evaporates from a plants leaves

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Embryo

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the young plant that develops from the fertile egg

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Germination

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Occurs when the embryo begins to grow again and pushes out the seed

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Flower

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the reproductive structure of an angiosperm

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Pollination

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The transfer of polonium from the male reproductive structures to the female ones

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Sepals

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A leaf like structure that encloses a new bud

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Petals

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I the colorful leaf like structures that are usually the most colorful part of the plant

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Stemens

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The male reproductive parts.

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Pistils

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The female reproductive parts.

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Ovary

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A hallow structure that protects the seed as it develops

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Sporophyte stage

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Is the stage where the plant produces spores

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Gametophyte

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The plant produces two kinds of sex cells: sperm, and eggs

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Annuals

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A plant that has completed one life cycle within one growing season

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Biennials

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Angiosperms that complete their life cycle in two years

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Perennials

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Flowering plants that have lifted for more then 2 years

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Fertilization

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Happens when a sperm cell units with an egg cell

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Zygote

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A fertilized egg

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Cones

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Reproductive structures covered with scales

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Ovule

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A structure that contains a egg cell

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Fruit

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A ripened ovary that encloses one or more seeds

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Tropism

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A plant’s growth response towards or away from a stimulus

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Hormone

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A chemical that affects how the plant grows and develops.

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Auxin

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A plant hormone

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Photoperiodism

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A plant’s response to seasonal changes in the length or the night and day

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Critical night length

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The numbers of hours of darkness that determines when a flower will grow

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Dormancy

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A period when an organism’s growth or activity stops.

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